Neil DeGrasse Tyson Urges America To Challenge China To a Space Race

An anonymous reader writes: According to a Tuesday story in the UK edition of the International Business Times, Neil deGrasse Tyson, the celebrity astrophysicist and media personality, advocates a space race between the United States and China. The idea is that such a race would spur innovation and cause industry to grow. The Apollo race to the moon caused a similar explosive period of scientific research and engineering development. You might prefer the Sydney Morning Herald piece on which the IB Times article is based.

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astrophysicist?

[frovingslosh]

Media hound? Yes! Destroyer of Planets? Certainly! But astrophysicist? Really? I know he takes care of signage at the Hayden Planetarium, but what has he really done as an astrophysicist? I can't find any contribution that Neil DeGrasse Galactus has made to astrophysics.

Re:astrophysicist?

[countSudoku()]

Go deny science on some other web site, dufus

NDGT is awesome, if you could not "find" something to back up your ignorant stance we're not all that surprised. Studying the cosmos and doing some related science IS being an astrophysicist. Did he need to discover some comets or asteroids and get them named after him to reach the "high bar" in your own mind?

"freedoms that we used to have"? Oh, now I get it. You're still angry with the black man being president. What a fucking idiot you are, guy. Get reading some science books and DO something with your fucking life other than to bitch about a great nation that is filled with cool services that you probably do not take advantage of, or better yet claim "those other people are stealing your benefits!" Fucking grow the fuck up, take responsibility for the fucking mess that is your life and read some fucking books other than the bible for once in your miserable existence. You are not fit to smell NDGT's shit. You fucking ignorant asswipe.

Fucking science deniers are the cancer of our great nation and our world. Fucking backwards dipshits with zero info want to rework science to fit their fucked up views. What a sad bunch of assholes. Proper science is self-correcting and reproducible via peer studies. Fake science is easily discounted. But don't tell these asshats that. A corn-spiracy passes as fact with this lot. Fucking impossible to set them straight because they failed to learn the first time around.